Musings on my family, work and things I find interesting. Mainly, this was / is intended to record things for my kids so that they can get an insight into how I feel about them, plus I haven't done any writing for a long time, so would like to get some skill in that sphere again.

Monday, September 07, 2009

Technology predictions revisited

An email that I sent internally about some of our RSS and Atom feed processing, on 2008-03-04:

"The push aspect is a little annoying. We can do polling quite well now, but push via SFTP is messy. One day people will wake up and do this over Jabber, using something based on Atom, but until then, I guess we need to have a scheduled task that polls the SFTP directory and copies content about. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose..."